It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

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"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

- William Carlos Williams

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"I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it."

- William Carlos Williams

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"In summer, the song sings itself."

- William Carlos Williams

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"In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words."

- William Carlos Williams

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"Time is a storm in which we are all lost."

- William Carlos Williams

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

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"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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